21 January 2016

Teen She Shed Cottage Part 5

The Ceilings and Walls

The walls are pine, and it is actually the same product on the exterior installed the other way around.

My daughter thought this look is more refined and finished. She placed her paint chips on the tile floor, and from several samples of white she chose something simple and clean for the walls: SW "Designer White". With all the windows it will keep it cooler in the heat, plus she wanted a year round beach or winter look, which makes her feel cooler temperature wise. Actually, we used the same wood product in my spouse's office a year ago, but stained his with SW Black Fox by giving it one light coat.

What about the ceilings? She chose to leave them natural. Again, it is the same product that is on the shed's exterior and interior but installing the wide side on the ceiling. She loves the look of my spouse's beamed ceiling in his office, but that is original and dark, and she also loves the wood on the ceiling in her Italian Alps inspiration room, so she is really happy with the contrast. It also looks nice with the floors, but they are covered with plastic in this set of photos. It was a lot of tricky cuts for my spouse, because the interior is peaked and actually barn like in regards to the angles.

We really love the look too.

This window is finished being trimmed on the inside, and the windowsill looks really pretty. She loves windowsills, and they don't always have them in Arizona. My daughter placed the star and deer in the window for winter.

In this photo the baseboard is getting paint.

And over here, a couple of shelves are being constructed for books and display. One shelf is going on the long wall, and one is going over the smaller window.

This is birch wood. It is straighter than pine.

Some people like to see the process of a project and some like to see the end. If you missed the series beginning, here are the earlier posts, but we are getting closer to being done.

Welcome to our vintage 1940s cottage fixer: built when homes were a big petite 1000 square feet with sleeping porches for summer cool. I adore romantic, vintage, a ruffle of French, Nordic, and Swedish country with a sprinkle of cottage glam: a relaxed whimsical, elegance. It's our home, and there is painting, music, gardening, creating, living, kitties, french poodles, (and a pug)...imperfect with luster.

45 comments:

Thank you, Sara. I know. I had windowsills installed in my last home. In this home there is only one in the kitchen, and the giant corner windows. The walls are finished rounded at the window. There is no space to place anything. xoxo Su

Oh Su, it is beautiful and it seems to be coming together quite quickly. In my part of the country the product that you used for the exterior siding and interior walls is referred to as car siding and i have really only seen it used like your interior with the grooves showing but the reverse is gorgeous as well. Painting the interior white will really bounce the natural light around inside. Great choices.

Thank you, B.J. Isn't that start sweet. It was from Ikea's 2015 Christmas. I think it was less than 15 dollars and it has an LED battery light. What's nice about it's simple shape is that it looks wintery, not just Christmas, so one can keep it up longer. xoxo Su

I'm just catching up with this project. It's good that the boards look interesting whether inside or outside. I had no idea that there were different shades of white to choose from! Using a paint product that you know goes on well makes life easier. Everything is coming together well.

Thank you, Linda. Those boards are interesting: wide one side and like bead board on the other, and they link together from either face. It's really coming along. There are too many whites, and each has an under color such as pink, green, yellow, blue/gray.... It's the hardest shade to pick in my opinion. xoox Su

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Welcome to our vintage 1940s cottage fixer: built when homes were a big petite 1000 square feet with sleeping porches for summer cool. I adore romantic, vintage, a ruffle of French, Nordic, and Swedish country with a sprinkle of cottage glam: a relaxed whimsical, elegance. It's our home, and there is painting, music, gardening, creating, living, kitties, french poodles, (and a pug)...imperfect with luster.